Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sour taste keeps down the birthrate of putrefying bugs. * Furfural, a chemical compound made from corncobs or oat hulls, once a museum curiosity, is now used in the preparation of synthetic resin as bakelite; in the preservation of railroad ties, telegraph poles, shingles; in the flavoring of tobacco; the solvents of shoe dyes and leather dressings. Furfural, if necessary, could substitute for gasoline...
Last week Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York promenaded the Hall of Honor with Tobacco Chairman Sir Gilbert Wills. "I am reminded," said the Duke, "of a curious American substitute for such beautiful paintings, which came to the notice of my brother...
...long ago as 1924, the great Schulte interests took over Vivaudou, Inc., added such concoctions as "Melba," "Djer-Kiss," and "Mavis" to their inventories, recognized the beauty appetite as competitive with the tobacco appetite...
Workpeople who have been employed 40 years by the Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd. of Bristol, England, are sent to sit for their portraits in oils and these are hung in the corporation's Hall of Honor...
Thomas A. Edison-,-returning to his West Orange (N. J.) laboratory from rubber-hunting experiments in the South last week, found his workers smoking cigarets; promptly posted this notice. Pipes, cigars, chewing tobacco are not banned...